{"id":5084358,"date":"2019-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/truth-justice-and-the-latino-way\/"},"modified":"2019-10-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T04:00:00","slug":"truth-justice-and-the-latino-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2019\/10\/01\/truth-justice-and-the-latino-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth, Justice and The Latino Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Brian Woodman Jr.<\/a>, CTLatinoNews.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

Comic book artist and illustrator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez posed for pictures and signed autographs for the crowd of adults and children that gathered in the bottom floor at the Hartford Public Library on September 21. He appeared at the University of New Haven during the previous day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copies of his independently produced comic \u2018La Borinque\u00f1a\u2019 were placed across a table. Although the regular series has only lasted two issues, the copies include variant covers by different artists \u2013 one depicts the heroine dancing with a crowd on a Puerto Rican street during the San Sebastian street festival.<\/p>\n\n\n

Her costume was added this year to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History\u2019s superhero exhibit, which started in 2018. She is the only independently created character whose costume is on display there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Pineda, who brought his children to the Hartford event, noted the character was Afro-Latino.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a part of our culture that is often overlooked,\u201d he said, noting La Borinque\u00f1a\u2019s dark complexion and hair.<\/p>\n\n\n

There were also copies of a cross-over graphic novel called \u201cRicanstruction: Reminiscing and Rebuilding Puerto Rico\u201d in which La Borinque\u00f1a teams up with Superman, Wonder woman and other characters from DC Comics to reconstruct Puerto Rico in 2017 following Hurricane Maria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miranda-Rodriguez conceived the idea after encountering representatives of DC at the New York Comic Con two weeks after the hurricane. The talent involved in its creation ranged from comic book icons like Frank Miler to actress Rosario Dawson and musician\/actor Ruben Blades. All the profits from the comic went to Miranda-Rodriguez\u2019s La Borinque\u00f1a Grants Program<\/a> that provided $10,000 in grants over two years to Puerto Rican grassroots organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miranda-Rodriguez stated earlier in the week that he created La Borinque\u00f1a to be deeply connected to Puerto Rican culture. He added that established mainstream characters sharing the spotlight with her emphasized the universal nature of storytelling while providing her culture with more exposure. <\/p>\n\n\n

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